Originally posted by DocNo:
The whole web thing in the mid to late '90s was artificial, overhyped and unrealistic. If that's all your basing your guage of a president on, then you aren't with reality - you need to take a long, honest look at what was really going on in the late '90s...
no... its more than that.
but thats the simplest.
other issues I have(and just up front, I have no intention of debating all these issues, I am merely posting them to point out that I do indeed have valid reasons to dislike W)
-His past work experience hardly makes him qualified to be the leader of the country. basically a string a bankrupt businesses and poor business decisions.
-Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes.
-Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
-Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
-Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
-Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
-First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
-First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
-After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.
-Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.
-In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
-Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
-Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
-Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
-Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
-Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history.
-Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
-Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
-Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
-Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)
-Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
-most secretive and un-accountable presidency of any in US history.
-Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest', Condoleeza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).
-Had more states to simultaneously go bankrupt than any president in the history of the United States.
-Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
-Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
-Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
-First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
-First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
-Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
-Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
-Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
-Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
-All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
-Biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
-Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
-First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
-Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
-With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
-Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
-First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
-Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
-Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
-So Far, Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
-Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. So Far, no leads and zero suspects.
-In the 2 years following the 911 attacks he successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
-At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
-AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war.
-Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
-All records of his tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to his fathers library, sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
-All records of any SEC investigations into his insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
-All minutes of meetings for any public corporation that he served on the board are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
-Any records or minutes from meetings he (or Cheney) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public review.
so yeah, I only dislike him for a couple reasons. but the simplest and most cut and dry is the my personal finances